Word: phillip
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Unsurprisingly, it is not long before Phillip, husband to Mollie and father to Paris, arrives on the scene, or, in this case, sneaks in the back. Phillip (Justin Levitt), a frustrated alcoholic writer who has returned home to win Mollie back for the third time, is a frightening and volatile figure. He loses control at the end of the second act when Mollie threatens to leave, and takes predictably drastic measures in the third act when she does...
...rest of the characters don't really react to Phillip's posturing or to the traumas of the third act; McCullers has them go right on being the pushy belle, the sniffling old maid, the smart aleck kid, and the love struck good guy, even as Phillip self-destructs. The imbalance of the heavy drama with the trite filler of the other characters is uneven, unsettling, and unsatisfactory...
Levitt as Phillip Lovejoy gives the most intriguing performance of the evening. When Phillip is in control, he commands the undivided attention of the audience through his feline motions, tantalizingly deliberate diction, and tense pacing. Perhaps the weakest link in the cast is J.P. Anderson's portrayal of John, the love struck architect who wanders into this muddle of familial relationships. Anderson is tentative and unable to hold the stage beside Levitt or Wohl; he is capable of handling the romantic parts of the role but not the tenser moments. Yet Anderson is stronger in the scenes with Krohn...
...Undergraduates get into research and do some great work," said Assistant Professor of Chemistry Phillip A. Anfinrud, "but usually their projects aren't long-term enough to get published...
...Peckham's assistance was not needed. Officer Phillip Murphy and three other Harvard police who came to the scene allowed Ntshanga to leave...